Home
>
Streaming Audio & Online Music
>
What The Muscle Power of Audio Can Do for Your Site

What The Muscle Power of Audio Can Do for Your Site

How Audio can Influence Sales

Audio can enhance your website by letting your visitor listen to your voice, which is the next closest form of marketing besides a face to face meeting.

Who can use Audio?

Anyone can use audio, it all depends how knowledgeable you are when it comes to designing your site. For those that need help there are plenty of tutorials on how to place audio on your site all over the internet.

Audio and Affiliate Programs-Cause a ripple effect.

One commonly used strategy is to have audio reviews of the different affiliate programs you are associated with.

Find a product that pays a decent commission, write up a review of the product that you are promoting, use your written review as a script. Record the script in either .mp3 or .wav file. Upload the sound file, the website, and your done!

Audio can Increase Conversion Rates

If you are going to use audio clips for the affiliate programs you've chosen to promote, you may very well find that using audio can definitely increase your conversion ratio.

Keep your Audio file as small as possible. One important part for you to keep in mind is the size of your sound file, if the file is to large it will take "forever" to download and the majority of web surfers are impatient. Try and keep your audio review to 60 seconds or under. This should allow your webpage and sound file to download at the same time.

Keep in mind that you can place an audio clip on your site or inside an ebook, some people like audio some don't.

How Audio helps the visually impaired.

It all depends on your preferences, one benefit of using audio on your site is to accomodate the visually impaired.

Audio-Learn one step at a time.

Granted, creating an audio clip may seem a little confusing at first because you have to get familiar with the software you've chosen to use. But like most other tasks in life, practice makes perfect.

Audio-How is the file activated?

There are a couple of ways in which your visitor can activate the audio on your site. One is by clicking on a link, the other involves placing a small amount of code on your site that automatically downloads everytime you get a visitor to the page you've placed the audio clip on.

Audio-How about pop-up's and popunders?

You can also create pop-up's or pop-unders with an audio clip that downloads as the pop-up or pop-under window activates when your visitor goes to exit your site. An example of this would be to use your clip to encourage sign-up's for your ezine.

Audio-Where can you get tutored on this subject?

There are many tutorials on the net that teach people how to create pop-up's or pop-under's, there are also software programs that make the creation process a whole lot easier. There are also plenty of audio recording software programs out there, some are fr**, others cost money.

Final Comments:

By no means am I encouraging you to place audio on every page of your site, leave some pages as just plain text, others with text and a picture, and then text, picture and audio. What works for me may not necessarily work for you, but it never hurts to test. You won't know until you try.

Good luck,

Brian.

About The Author

Brian Holte is a freelance writer who owns He publishes a monthly ezine covering topics related to creating ebooks, he shows you what works for him in hopes of helping you.

In The News:

TechRadar UK
Sony Streaming Audio App Coming to iPhone
TechNewsDaily
by Sean Captain, Managing Editor, TechNewsDaily Sony announced today (May 22) that it's bringing its streaming service, Music Unlimited, to Apple mobile devices. It's not the company's first foray into mobile: The service has already been available on ...
Sony counters Spotify with Music Unlimited app on iOSCNET Australia

all 46 news articles »

Android Community
Should you try Spotify? NZ music streaming services compared
PCWorld.co.nz
Music Unlimited is Sony's music streaming service, available on the web, the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and on Android devices. There's plenty of music available â€“ Sony just says it's â€œmillions and millionsâ€ â€“ and it incorporates Sony's massive ...
Spotify hits Australia - is Freemium the future?Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
Telstra singing about MOG online music serviceThe Australian
Spotify music streaming heads to Australia and New ZealandAndroid Community
MakeUseOf
all 180 news articles »

Wired (blog)
JBL's Streaming Speaker Offers AirPlay on a Budget
Wired (blog)
The $200 OnBeat Air is a streaming music speaker built for iTunes and iOS. The clamping arm mount holds your iPhone, iPod or iPad while it charges. Photo by Jon Snyder/Wired AirPlay devices typically command a premium. If you want a speaker system that ...

and more »

World's tallest tower opens
Brisbane Times
Websites in the Fairfax Digital Network offer streaming video and audio in the Flash format. Streaming media allows you to watch video on a website as a continuous feed, as opposed to waiting for an entire audio or video file to download to your ...

and more »

ARIA To Introduce Australian Streaming Music Chart
Tone Deaf
The streaming chart, launched by the Official Charts Company (UCC), was the first of its kind to rank â€œaudio streams from both ad-funded and subscription streaming services in the UK, to reflect the growing interest in this new generation of music ...

and more »

Geeky gadgets
The playGo AP1 Wirelessly Streams High-Fidelity Audio from iOS Devices to Any ...
ParamusPost.com
playGo AP1 is an AirPlayÂ®-enabled receiver that wirelessly streams audio from iOS devices to speaker systems through Wi-Fi or Ethernet. Providing true Hi-Fi quality and plug-and-play usability, the playGo AP1 is a fully featured audio player platform ...
playGo AP1 AirPlay Wireless Lossless Audio Receiver Hits Kickstarter (video)Geeky gadgets

all 8 news articles »

RedOrbit
RIM unveils audio streaming service BlackBerry Music Gateway
Network World
By Chris Martin, TechWorld The small near-field communication (NFC) enabled gadget allows users to wirelessly stream music to a hi-fi, car stereo or other audio sources. The BlackBerry Music Gateway will be available in June with a US price of $49.
BlackBerry Music Gateway Uses NFC to Stream AudioPCWorld
BlackBerry Music Gateway: Streaming So Simple Your Grandma Could Do ItMashable
BlackBerry Enters Music Streaming Market: Too Little, Too Late?RedOrbit
CNET -ITBusiness.ca
all 2,245 news articles »

Brisbane Times
No yoghurt for John Butler
Brisbane Times
Websites in the Fairfax Digital Network offer streaming video and audio in the Flash format. Streaming media allows you to watch video on a website as a continuous feed, as opposed to waiting for an entire audio or video file to download to your ...

and more »

MOH Technology Simplifies Direct Audio Streaming for Cisco Unified CallManager ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The MOH Technology innovation is to IP-stream the on-hold content directly to VoIP phone systems such as Asterisk and CallManager, using a low-cost IP audio device that is separate from the VoIP server -- thus avoiding the need to update files on the ...

and more »

Radio goes online
Times of India
To make sure that the online radio does not eat up your bandwidth, many stations stream music and content at lower qualities. Usually online radios stream at about 56 and 96 kbps which results in a loss of quality (music streaming at 128 kbps is ...
The future of radio is online, device-driven and in your carMemeburn

all 10 news articles »

Google News

What The Muscle Power of Audio Can Do for Your Site

Streaming Audio & Online Music